The colonial harem / Malek Alloula ; translation by Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich ; introduction by Barbara Harlow.

Main entry:

Alloula, Malek.

Title & Author:

The colonial harem / Malek Alloula ; translation by Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich ; introduction by Barbara Harlow.

Publication:

Description:

xxii, 135 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 x 27 cm

Series:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 21

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The orient as stereotype and phantasm -- Women from the outside: obstacle and transparency -- Women's prisons -- Women's quarters -- Couples -- The figures of the harem: dress and jewelry -- Inside the harem: the rituals -- Song and dance: almehs and bayaderes -- Oriental sapphism -- The colonial harem: images of a suberoticism.
Translated from the French.

ISBN:

0816613842
9780816613847

Subject:

Women Algeria Social conditions.
Postcards Algeria.
Photography of women.
Harems.
Femmes Algérie Conditions sociales.
Photographie de femmes.
Postcards.
Women Social conditions.
Algeria.

Added entries:

Theory and history of literature ; v. 21.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282593
Call No.: BIB 220249
Status: Available

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